Definition - Regulated Football Match
An association football match
(whether in England and Wales or elsewhere) which is a
prescribed match or a match of a prescribed description (section
14(2), Football Spectators Act 1989).
The Football Spectators
(Prescription) Order 2000 (SI 2000/2126) and the Football
(Offences) (Designation) Order 2000 (SI 2000/2329) provide that
a regulated football match in England and Wales is an
association football match –
(a) in which one or both of the participating teams represents a
club which is for the time being a member (whether full or
associate) of the Football League, the Football Association
Premier League [or the Football Conference – see below], ore
represents a club from outside England and Wales or represents a
country or territory; and
(b) which is played
(i) at a sports ground which is designated by order under
section1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975, or
registered with the Football League or the Football Association
Premier League at the time the match is played; or
(ii) in the Football Association cup (other than in a
preliminary or qualifying round).
By the same order, a regulated
match outside England and Wales is an association football match
involving –
(a) a national team appointed by the Football Association to
represent England or the Football Association of Wales to
represent Wales; or
(b) a team representing a club which is, at the time the match
is played, a member (whether full or associate) of the Football
League or the Football Association Premier League.
Statutory Instruments
2004 Nos. 2409 and 2410: The Football Spectators (Prescription)
Order 2004 & The Football (Offences) (Designation of Football
Matches) Order 2004 updated the definitions above to include the
Football Conference which is now a three division feeder league
to the Football League. Prior to the 2004 amendments offences
concerned with Football Conference games could not be said to be
football related because they outside the scope of the
definition of regulated football matches. Attendance at
Conference games by persons subject to banning orders were not
breaches.
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